If it was in the US (especially California) and presented in OpenGL, I would attend in a second

This might be a good place to ask this: I read on some web site recently that the 3d texturmapping capability on some GF3 cards will be disabled at first. (like the first x cards shipped won’t be able to do it in hardware). Is this true? If so, why? That would suck

We have done some invitation-only presentations in the very early going, but if there’s interest in doing a similar kind of developer event in Santa Clara, I bet that could be arranged. Chris Seitz is the guy at nvidia that puts these kinds of events together - if you’re interested you should contact him cseitz@nvidia.com and let him know. You could also email it to me and I’ll forward it to him – cass@nvidia.com.

Originally posted by Moz:
[b]Can anybody go to the conference at Heathrow and get a GF3 for half the price? (Can I?)

Hey Tim, I’m in Edinburgh …
Where are you in Scotland?
And where can I get this rail card from

Think that 6 months ago I worked in Basingstoke, 50 miles from Heathrow.[/b]

I live in Dunblane. I got an application form in a letter from UCAS but I think you can go to any station and pick up a form. You get at least 1/3 off on most tickets. I will be living in Edinburgh soon as will be studying Computer Science and A.I.

The problem with picking up a Geforce3 for half price is that even with getting the cheapest pssible tickets and the cheapest accomodation (i.e not staying in the Hilton) it will work out almost as much as buying one [img]http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/frown.gif[/img] Is there any limitation, I mean do you have to prove you are a developer???.

Maybe I could get one of my Dads friends who live in londo to pick one up. They should have this conference up in scotland, there are more sftware and hardware developers here- that is why they call it Silicon Glen.

Although it is a DX8 event, I thought £250 for a 2 day conference + a GeForce3 was actually a very good deal !

I tried to phone the organisers (is that plain english ???) to ask if OpenGL drivers would be installed on the test machines (yes, we also get to test our software over there, if we want to !) and have had no answer yet (so, thanks Cass !).

On the other hand, I thought the card they would give would have the drivers (i.e. it is an ELSA Gladiac 920, so I suppose it will be the retail model !).

I know some other people of this board are going (won’t give the names as I don’t know if they want me to !) but perhaps it would be a good idea that everybody who intends to go says it: how about a late pub session ???

Best regards.

Eric

P.S.: I thought I’d add that I am going as part of my job… Although going just for the GF3 could sound interesting, I would not do it: my home computer does not even have an AGP port (and it is a Cyrix 133+) !

P.S. 2: Also wanted to mention that we have to sign a NDA for the conference so I doubt we will be able to talk about what happens there… On the other hand, I suppose we will be allowed to talk about the performance of the card (or won’t we ?).

I’ll be there. It is not the D3D implementation what I’m looking for. I’m just interested in techniques, what is good and what not (it is usally the same in D3D than in OGL). It is good to talk with old friends and all those things… It will be good to be a OGL event but this is something I’m not waiting to happen…